Ep. 44: Let the Plants Die
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
- This week Al, Ben and Jason talk about projects this week, burnout, trash pumps, fermented poop hay, deep bedding, welding gates, compost piles, tree grafting and being recognized in public!
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Homestead Shop Talk is a weekly audio podcast hosted by Jason Contreras (@sowtheland), Ben Hollar (@thehollarhomestead) and Al Lumnah (@lumnahacres). Three dudes with different homesteads talking about homestead life, content creation, growing a homestead and building a life worth living for. Thanks for listening! #homesteadshoptalkpodcast
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I would like to see Meg, Gina & Lorraine do an episode homesteading from the wife's perspective
Or just a couples podcast would be great.
YESSSSS!!!
Maybe they’re not the buddies these three are. Meg and Lorraine are quite different with different priorities.. 😊
Jason, it’s like those Lazy Susans that you turn into Jennies. 😂😂
Yes 🦘
Love the banter and I always chuckle along with ya, guys. Thanks for the baby update, Ben! Praying for an easy delivery and recovery for Meg and a strong, healthy little one! ✌️
Yes! Well said😊
I agree with Forrest .
To quote Mrs.H from Homestead Heart, "You grow your own groceries". An honorable and content way to live and raise your families. So many people don't understand how our food is "made". You are teaching vital things to hungry to know people. Trail blazers.
I love her channel. I found her channel just before they got that property. She is such a joy to learn from. I miss her “Broody Momma” updates.
I always watch every video of these three families….and the podcast. It’s just refreshing to see honest and healthy families and minds‼️✔️
Soooo true!!!❤
I have some friends who were discussing their gardens. After a few minutes of listening, I realized they only grow flowers. They were shocked when I told them the flower beds out front have flowers and hot peppers, and out back, I have a few peonies between the vegetables and herbs, in my herb garden, 5 raised beds and a 10x50 garden. They have fire pits in the middle of their back yards. I have compost. 😄
I know I never understood just planting flowers in the garden beds…I would always say to my mom why not plant something that will produce food like sweet peppers and tomatoes and cucumbers and onions etc etc and she would tell me no that’s a vegetable garden and I’m growing a flower garden I could never understand why it couldn’t just be both. The flowers could attract the pollinators and the veggies would just produce food. Anyway I think that’s the way it used to be!!! 🥰❤️🍁🇨🇦🙏🏻
Good morning Al, Ben, and Jason! This is the highlight of my week. Thanks, guys,for posting this podcast.
Amen and amen!
Love you guys
FANTABULOUS!!!
I join the many thousands of people who are sending y'all high fives and thumbs up, even if you don't see all the reactions.
Y'all bring a ton of joy into our lives, so I thank you for that.
Can hardly wait until next Friday!
Don’t stop your channel guys. You bring a lot of joy. I smile and chuckle every time I watch you all. Oh , Ben we are all on baby watch. ❤🙏
Thanks again for an informative and entertaining discussion! You guys have a great sense of humor and a good knowledge base. You are not afraid to tackle new jobs on your land!
I love ALL Homestead Shop Talk Podcast videos!
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Another most excellent podcast gentlemen. Thank-you.
Fridays are special with you 3. I love the podcasts and the camaraderie you all show. You're fun to watch.
While I was listening to you all, I went out and fed the Kunekunes with the fruit over flow - Im in New Zealand so its Autumn, currently we are inundated with apples and feijoas, pigs are thrilled - I fed the chickens and soaked their feed for tomorrow. Saturday morning routine with you all along for the ride. What we are all doing is growing food, living with the land and trying to teach a few folks along the way. With whatever our skillsets are. Ours is an organic plant nursery so I give whatever help and knowledge I can to assist those who are into it on the way.
Good seeing you again, take it easy until next week
Great podcast guys as always! You all have become amazing craftsmen in so many different areas, keep up the great work it is encouraging to the rest of us! Peace and blessings! 👍🏼😉
Ingenious idea about the tvalve and hydroseeding, especially if it works.
Lol
Jason
I have Not got sick of your fence videos..,
All your videos are great.
I enjoy all of you guys videos.
Gina., Loraine, Meg💋💋💋
God bless all of you🙏Linda from Ct
Highlight of my Friday!
Yep Jason, I’d run that water directly to the greenhouse for Lorraine, you can always T off later. And Ben, let the boys plant this year while you help Meg. Love yall! 🫶🏻
I should be doing this or that, getting in the greenhouse but have to spend a very enjoyable visit with Homestead Shop Talk. You all make me laugh and feel good about what I'm trying to do. Jason, congratulations on the fence, an awesome job well done. Watched the trencher video thinking that is the only way to go. Now, when you need to plant a tree, dig a post hole, save those shoulder muscles and trench, LOL! Al, wishing you warmer weather. I am always shivering watching you do outside chores in the rain, sleet and snow. Very envious of your compost pile. I cried too when you played Gina's song. Ben, pondered an alternative to "homesteader". How about pilgrim, trailblazer, settler or even clod chopper, LOL. Innovator also came to mind but really you three are more bringing back, with more modern techniques and knowledge, the ways our country was built. Meg is often in my thoughts. Praying for an easy delivery and healthy baby and Mom. Thanks again for an enjoyable time.
You guys joke but some day you will know. You really are living the dream. You are doing exactly what I wanted to do, but never had a chance while I had my health. Now I am a 70 year old man who was a single parent forty years ago in my prime and just did not have a chance to do it. Each of you has a great partner and that is key to your life. Yes, you are small scale version of my one set of grandparents. They built a thousand acre farm and raised fifteen kids on it during the depression. Really had no idea the depression was going on they were so remote and self sufficient. Cattle, pigs, milk cows, chickens, large truck garden, berries, nuts, made their own wine, They were your age before the local co-op brought a single line of electric to their place. Up to that point it was a hand pump well and outhouse. But they had luxuries like a small well hand pump at their kitchen sink for those freezing mornings so grandpa could shave at the sink before going out to get the water bucket filled for the day. Very few folks had such luxuries. They cut ice in the winter and stored in the "ice house" so they could have block ice into August or later here in Missouri. The memories for me were great. Riding the fender of that old Ford tractor talking like a motor mouth to Grandpa who might say ten words a day. But when he spoke you paid attention. It was a hard life but a full one and it truly was a "family business" that was a smooth team that worked as equal partners in most ways. Could not succeed without both working in the same direction. That thousand acres was needed because the grew their own hay fields, their own feed corn, and had a hundred and eighty acres of hardwood tree lot for lumber and tree products, a lot of which was black walnut. Had a stream through the middle but also close to a dozen good water springs on it for livestock.
Dude...don't give up now!!! We are just getting started! We may work slower...but smarter (if we remember hahaha) All kidding aside...I will be 70 in a few months...and just keep moving right along. These young uns need the wisdom you have stored up...don't take it with you! Just start again...today...one little bit. One step. That is all each of us has...one step and then another. Keep telling us your stories!
Wholeheartedly agree with the comment above. So true Grandpa never said very much but when he did you listened!!! Grandpa seemed an incredible resource on how to do soooo many things and I know he showed his four boys a lot of what he had. He was a very wise man by the time he passed in his mid 80’s and my Dad is the same. He very seldom says much but when he does there’s a lot behind it. God bless and keep sharing your knowledge with the youngsters around you because they may not need the knowledge now but when you have passed on they will be very grateful that you took the time to share your knowledge with them. God bless and I hope you will have a chance to live your dream life one day soon. 🥰❤️🙏🏻🍁🇨🇦❤️
My grandpa died too early. I was a child. One very fond memory I have of, Doc was watching him pull 3 carrots 🥕 out of his small garden. He wiped the Tennessee dirt off of each one as he handed my cousin, sister and me and said, now if I see y’all in my bed of carrots 🥕 y’all want be able to sit down anytime soon!
His carrots 🥕 were looking like Candy!
They were Share croppers.
Lived in a house with no water, or electricity. Heated with coal.
My grandma died from Black Lung when mama was 16 months old. Her sister was born two years before mama.
We went to Aunt Kathryn’s every weekend. No one had running water where our family lived. Doc grew his own Tabacco.
My mama told us that she could see the chickens under the house in the winter!
They were dirt poor.
Oh and I am 73 years old.
All of us don’t know how hard, hard is.
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I see some type mistakes. I think what I was trying to say is readable. ❤
Jason you will be sooo gllad you put a hydrant in the greenhouse. I fou.d that hydrants are like outletd in your house. You cannot have too many
When building go way overboard and maybe you will have enough. Soon glad you are getting waterline in. When you think what you are doing is boring after several months of a project, ask yourself if you would like to go back to 25/7 in the factory/office. When I lived in N.C. stray/wild dogs were a huge problem. They dug right under the wire that we buried 1 ft in the ground and killed chickens. The locals told us it was totally OK to shoot them. Sounds like things have not changed much. I am really hoping your fence works Jason. Hot wired should work especially at the bottom so they will not dig.
OMG! Thanks for showing up every Friday! I think everyone knows the feeling of being overwhelmed and skipping out on something- I sure do! I look forward to your podcast every week! Keep them coming!
Ben you are doing a great job. On your homestead.
Hi guys …Happy Friday!!!🎉🌱🥬🫑🌶️🍅
Ya are Doing great Things on ya’s HOMESTEAD 🌱
I was waiting for you baby cry at the end lol
Me too!!!!
Ben, it's called a twist butler on Premier 1's site.
Love Listening to you guys, you have great sense of humor in your talks❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Another good podcast guys............love listening to you banter and anxious to see the new critters you are all "maybe" getting.........LOL
Blessings
Please don't stop doing the podcast ❤
Hi Al! Maybe there is a way to rent a rock-picker to go over your garden area. That could help you tremendously.
Good morning.
Great SHOPTALK. NOTHING, BUT THE BEST. WATCH YOUR PERSONAL VLOGS. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU.
SE MICHIGAN
Best vegetables are processed on the table within an hour
We were told to go pick fresh corn, then RUN back to the house. If you dropped an ear, don't stop to pick it up !!!
Al search in your area for manufacturer of dye colored Mulch for buying IBC Totes, to find the best and cheapest IBC Tote supplier, they get stuck with ( barely used ) stockpiles, example; the one in Erie Pa sells so cheap its worth the drive from Pittsburgh !
Hi Guys! I keep missing these. I love them when I can get to them. Thanks for keeping these up. Spring is always an overwhelming time! I'm super thankful for you guys doing this podcast! You do make me feel better about what I'm doing listening to you guys! The time does go by so fast. Cool, hydroseeding! I didn't know that was what you were doing. That sounds great for getting grass to grow! Cool, compost tea sprayer too! Trash pump = grow cannon! Nice, raised bed gardens in Gina's secret garden area! Cool, weed fabric down and then plant squash into holes through it! Livestock tomorrow! Ouch, prices going up in the Spring! You are getting sheep Jason? Cool! That fencing project was huge! Ben this week was corn planting and hazelnut trees planted. Darn, a frost. You had starts to transplant. Organic Growers School that last weekend had a grafting class. Good to know it was a timing thing on when to do it. Yes, fame has to be a weird thing! It sounds like the farm you went to for the class was really fun to visit! It's nice to be inspired! Yes, you are a homestead so you supply your family with your own food you raise. Many of the farms on our road grow crops and don't have a garden. I didn't know a "homesteader" is an icky word. I like it! I'm glad you are all making money from RUclips! Jason has lots of meat chickens! Lots of Hobbit pigs. Wow, 40 egg layers! Nice, welding up your own gates Jason! Yay, the trench was done in no time! Then you get to put in your water pipe. I've done the crimped Pex but not underground! Too bad you got the wrong crimper. That's great that you have the set-up to water the high tunnel from the 1000 gallon rain barrel with a 250 gallon barrel and a Milwaukee pump. You all work so hard and people can be so rude in the comments! Yay, no more dogs Jason! Yup, dogs have shown up and gone after my chickens. No baby yet! Is Meg giving you "the stink eye Ben?" Thanks guys!
Love watching you work for my relaxation. LOL,
Twist Butler for poultry netting, Premiere 1 Supplies
Great podcast. Sorry but I am looking forward to your pex videos. Learned enough on fencing that I will be doing Electric Fence this spring. Just for my garden to keep the deer from eating my garden. I find you guys to be so dry witted I chocked when Ben went on about announcing the birth at the end of a video. Thanks for all your hard work Ben,Al and Jason.
i love watching your individual channels but i love the shop talk even better lol all three of you make a great team and Al definitely needs to come visit you all HUGSSSSSS
You guys should visit your local Fire Dept. for more ideas on homestead fire suppression. Also, you can get a percentage off your home insc. if you have fire suppression on your property.
Hi guys, happy Friday ☕️
Renaissance men, I think would be an acceptable title to describe what you do 😎👍 don’t worry about labels and what people think. I’ve been watching Al for quite a while now and I am jealous of the lifestyle and the quality of life.
I’m more of the Jason quality of life person, never quit or give up! I’m not into high tech or going barefoot in the chicken coop. 😊Love Megs infective laugh, love of tackling recipes and Als everyday appreciation of the sunrise and the possibilities it brings.
Hey AL feed water from the top of the tote no back pressure on the pump. Will fill faster less pressure.
Good day Jason, Ben and Al, Another great podcast and some good times. I've watched all the videos from these three, they are very informative and sometimes funny. I set and say to myself, that's not how I would have done that, but his way will work just as well ! Al, as for the increase in the price of the u.b.c. tubs, remember, don't buy a boat in the spring, buy it in the fall and don't buy a snow machine in the fall, buy it in the spring or summer ! You have lots of room to have stored them all winter, they would have been great water storage for the new "secret garden". Have a great week, till the next podcast, THANK YOU GUYS !!!
Absolutely agree…it would be such a treat to hear the wives perspective.
As always a good watch and listen. I listen to it going up to our property.
Thank you Ben for the homesteader moniker. I've got my property for my retirement farm and I'm old enough to remember when there were farmers but the only place you could find living homesteaders was in Alaska.
I also grew up on a subsistence style farm and as you said, it was because we were poor. Lived in a 800 sf tarpaper shack using an outhouse and there wasn't much we bought at the store
I tasted store bought bread for the first time in 3rd grade when we went to visit our aunt a little over an hour away. At lunchtime she made all of us deviled ham sandwiches (a lot of cans to make sandwiches for all 8 of us kids) with lettuce and miracle whip. Wasn't that thrilled with the texture of the deviled ham but was totally enthralled by the air bread and the taste of miracle whip.
A special dinner for us was spaghetti because the noodles were store bought. Once us kids were 10 we had to buy our own school clothes and supplies because we were old enough to work in the local berry fields. Once strawberry, raspberry and blueberry seasons were done grandpa would daily drop us off at various pastures to fill up enough baby bathtubs and buckets that filled the bed of his truck with blackberries to sell through August. That money was used to pay for school things for those under 10 with the leftover to be saved for power bills for the rest of the year.
All of that was in addition to gardening and animal chores to provide our meat needs. We also had to work in our foraging of both wild plants and clams and oysters and worst of all hundreds of pounds of smelt.
But even though we may have been looked down on by others, we never once went hungry and we had a roof over our heads. While our shoes may have been lined with cardboard and our underwear were homemade with pieces together scraps left over from discounted shirt and dress material (sewed my first dress at 8 yo.) we were clothed.
Time to get back to that type of living.
In one of the chapters of our book of life, we had spray irrigation. We had a lot of seaweed tea after a storm, so we poured it into the tank as the spray was on and spread it all over our farm. Easy as! great chat as always.💕💕🌻🌻
Love listening to you guys!💖
Best podcast yet! I love hanging with you guys on Friday mornings!
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you so much for the Friday morning visit God bless have great weekend.
Time for Spring Break! with Love.
Its amazing how much better-looking Al is without his long beard.
Jason...When you get sheep make sure you have an area where you can easily collect the sheep manure. You guys will LOVE sheep manure!!!! It is classified as a cold manure and you can put it directly into your garden. In my opinion there is no other manure better than sheep manure.
Hydro seeding is amazing. I saw it first about thirty years ago and if you can get the pressure needed so as to totally penetrate the soil deep enough, it’s a go! Not cost effective for small uses. 😊 It was used primarily in Southern California by housing developments in the hills to stabilize the ground.
Trash pumps are great. You use them for pumping water that has a lot of debris. So you are good to go if you need to pump water from a muddy pond or to empty a broken cistern that needs repair, etc.
Great podcast y'all. Always going to learn something.
You guys have truly found a niche.. the camera just loves your easy going nature.. it's called the IT factor.
I gotta say though.. the channel that Fully owns that spot is ... well you know.. . It's Jason from Cog Hill Farm. The man talks to cats, goats, pigs and cows and ostriches .. and people just love it. People have this need to connect with careing, decent, hard working people who respect the land... and you all fit the bill. Fence and Dance away gentlemen. 😊 🚜 🕺
I love your podcast you guys are the greatest and when Meg has her baby it would be fun to have the women on! 😊
What do you do? Livin', just livin' life man, as best we can! ❤ (ps. Im still hoping for twin girls Ben, but I think you have another beautiful boy. Can't wait to find out.)
I'm a-gonna raise a fuss
I'm a-gonna raise a holler
About working all summer
Just-a trying to earn a dollar
Every time I call my baby
Try to get a date
My boss says “No dice, son
You gotta work late”
Sometimes I wonder
What I'm a-gonna do
But there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues
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That’s hilarious!!!!!
@@pampilgrim2274
Part-2
Well my mom and pop told me, "Son you gotta make some money"
If you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday
Well I didn't go to work, told the boss I was sick
"Well you can't use the car 'cause you didn't work a lick"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
I'm gonna take two weeks, gonna have a fine vacation
I'm gonna take my problem to the United Nations
Well I called my congressman and he said "Whoa!"
"I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Sung by Eddie Cochran
Helps those of us not endowed with mechanical abilities to understand.
Instead of falling asleep in bed, iam laughing at the jokes n banter etc
Lol, just thought,circle the chickens and their pen with a pigs run. 😂
Good morning.
Rewatching, yeah Al talking about flat farm land, we bought a hunting property and we're having to clear it for pasture. It's going to take years but we're doing it.
Enjoy taking my Friday lunch break and listening to y’all. I’m in Hot Springs and am one of those with NO flat land and every day is “leg day”. Being intentional about sitting and listening in the middle of the day…even just once a week…helps.
It's Not weird.. something is wrong .. Marketing is dangerous.. Soldier on ❤
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Wait til you guys get older and everyone looks like they're in high school. :)
❤ love the content on your video podcast. Ben you asked what you Al and Jason should call your farming.....here in oz we call them hobby farm
I got their poultry netting for around my raised beds...took it down to redo, did not finish it one afternoon, got up the next morning the the deer had gotten to it! One hot mess to untangle! lol
It doesn’t bother me of seeing the same thing I learn a lot and when I do it and I hear Jason say don’t do this we learn through our mistakes
Excellent video guys!!!❤
Love this show!! I tell all the other channels I watch about it.
Think bringing some of the parts as part of the demo would be advantages.
NO BEN. DON'T DO THAT TO US!!!❤❤❤😅
Canning asparagus while listening to your podcast. 100#
Oh speaking my language today….overwhelmed. Starting 50+ layers, 4H turkeys, small batch of royal grey broilers, and Orlop Turkeys. I don’t know if I fully recovered from kidding season, in the start of base/soft ball. Tilling the garden (2-4 more times probably) And at my small family dairy preparing for additional quality standard (and massive deductions) so we don’t get bit by that. lol just another Friday, oh almost forgot starting more seeds 🤣🤦🏻♂️
Dogs see chickens… they think :Box lunch !
Just remember guys that it pays the bills and I hope you keep on loving it! 😊
Jason your fencing videos weren’t boring they were informative
Some of my favorites because it gave Jason instant gratification as each foot was stretched. He would smile as he went! Just as with the pipe trenching! 😅
So funny, so I own a german shepherd, and when she was little I put up my chicken run. Five foot tall chainlink, cuz that girl can jump! I watched from the house one day, she jumped up on to the door of my chicken tractor, mine was built to raise turkeys as well, so it is three foot tall, one jump right into the middle of the door, Thank God I built that thing right, no entrance for you doggie. She lives behind another five foot tall chainlink fence. Now we have a young golden retreiver in the hood, first time on my property he went straight for the chickens, no entrance here buddy.
The Three ( plus Others ) Are 'OSMFO's Old-School Modern Farming Outsiders !
Enjoyed the video 😊
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Al, I hope you will share the use of your hydro seeder.
I used 3/4 pex to run a water line from my house to a yard hydrant next to my shop about 125' away. It's been working about a year now without any issues. I am in NC, and I buried the pipe about 16" deep. I used the stainless steel crimp rings rather than the copper rings.
If I had to go any further than 125', I would probably have bumped it up to 1" pex to get move volume/flow, and tap off of 1" piping in my crawlspace rather than the 3/4" line.
Take care and God Bless.
@Ben, I have a nephew that lives in Colorado, his family lives in TN and he didn't tell the family until AFTER their baby was born. They tore him a new one.
Ask Al if he seen any mooses at is place lately??,,,,good Prodcast,,,,have a nice weekend.
Al you should check out pure cold pressed castor oil to keep your lips from cracking. It's good for sun/windburn relief on your skin. Check it out.
Thank you.
Yes! and the vitamins in it help heal the skin😊
Good morning fellas. I am always encouraged by your friendship and comradery and honesty. Here is my thought for today. Homesteading is a word of HONOR. It is an HONOR to take a piece of land, and make it a home and a family place where love and caring abound. Not just for each other but for the Creation that God has given to us and said for us in Gen. 1:28 God said to us, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it;" As God subdues what is in us that leads to death rather than life - sin - so in the same way we subdue in nature that which leads to death, turning it around so this it yields life! What a wonderfilled way to interact with our Creator Father. I am a homesteader. At heart. In reality. It is an old word. A good word. A Word I ad to my name with Honor. Miss Bonnie, Homesteader.
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You guys talking about some jobs that drag on, I often wonder how many times you do your editing and wish so much you could do real life time lapse speed ups. I know I have some jobs like that I wish I could FF and get over with, I'm sure you guys must have that too!*! ❤
Jason try pricing Frontier Airlines for your trip
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In early 80s & 90s my wife and I were doing what you guys are doing when homesteading was not a thing, we were livestock and gardeners.
What do you mean aren’t we all your family Ben?? If you are truly the dirt poor subsistence farmer then we are all your family ….12 kids and a dog and a sad country song …one more bun in the oven soon to come along….😂😂😂😂❤🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦🍁Love you guys and keep cranking these podcasts out because they are fun to listen to whether you have a topic or not especially hearing your week in review after we’ve already watching your channel it’s kinda like a retrospective and what you must’ve been thinking while filming. It’s fun to hear the “backstory” keep ‘em coming! God bless from a wanna be homesteader from Toronto, Ontario, Canada ❤🇨🇦🍁
I’m subscribed😁
ty..xoxo blessings to y'all in every way ..❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the Baby Update!
💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 Enjoyed the podcast, The Lord Jesus Christ blessings on the remainder of your week.💕💗💕
Interesting. I am not sure I would use pex underground as it is still relatively new to the market and I don't trust it yet. It reminds me of the Polybutylene or “Quest” piping used in the 80's. It was the cat's meow then but 10 - 15 years later it was cracking and flooding homes. Just my thoughts, for what it's worth.
So Jason and Ben have ya thought of selling Veggies to Restaurants ??